I always pronounced it engine-x (fluent as one word) but never thought of it meaning engine lol

n gin x -> en gin ex -> "enginex" spoken, nginx thought

I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it

Make me

hnn-geenks

If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you've messed up and lost already. Want it to be called "Engine X"? Call it "Engine X".

My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it's a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

This surprised me too. But that was in 2012 😂

I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it

Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

Getting into documentation is dangerous territory.. Try not to make a habit of it!

It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs

Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!

https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")

similar problem with kubectl

People pronounce GIF with a hard G, even though it's officially JIF, so who cares? /s, nothing agaisnt you, OP.

you mean its not En Gee Nix?